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" You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually."
Todd Haynes

Meaning of "smarty-pants" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SMARTY-PANTS

ˈsmɑːtɪˌpænts


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMARTY-PANTS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Smarty-Pants is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SMARTY-PANTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of smarty-pants in the English dictionary

The definition of smarty-pants in the dictionary is a would-be clever person.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SMARTY-PANTS

accounts · acknowledgements · acknowledgments · apartments · arrangements · compliments · contents · crants · elephants · Hants · infants · jogpants · Linz · movements · Northants · pants · presents · saints · sentiments · underpants

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SMARTY-PANTS

smart sanction · smart set · smart wool · smart-aleck · smart-alecky · smartarse · smartarsed · smartass · smarten · smartie · smartish · smartly · smartmouth · smartness · smartphone · smarts · smartweed · smarty · smarty-boots · smash

WORDS THAT END LIKE SMARTY-PANTS

arcs-boutants · bons vivants · by the seat of one´s pants · Capri pants · cargo pants · first year infants · have ants in one´s pants · hot pants · kick in the pants · knee pants · loon pants · menservants · palazzo pants · peg pants · pink elephants · ski pants · skiing pants · sweat pants · tableaux vivants · toreador pants

Synonyms and antonyms of smarty-pants in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «smarty-pants» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of smarty-pants to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of smarty-pants from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «smarty-pants» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

Smarty的裤子
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sabelotodo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

smarty-pants
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

समझदार पैंट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هندى السراويل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Smarty -штаны
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

espertinho
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

smarty-প্যান্ট
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

smarty- pantalon
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Smarty-pants
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Besserwisser
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

知ったかぶり
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

똑똑이
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Smarty-pants
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Smarty - quần
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

திமிரான இளைஞன்-காலுறை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

स्मार्ट-पैंट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

çok bilmiş
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

smarty -pants
65 millions of speakers
pl

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smarty -pants
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Smarty - штани
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

Smarty - pantaloni
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Smarty - παντελόνι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Smarty broek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

smarty - pants
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

smarty- pants
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about smarty-pants

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QUOTES WITH «SMARTY-PANTS»

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Todd Haynes
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMARTY-PANTS»

Discover the use of smarty-pants in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to smarty-pants and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Math for Smarty Pants
Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.
Marilyn Burns, 1982
2
Smarty-Pants Sheltie
When Noah takes the family's Shetland sheepdog, Jeopardy, to agility training, and she refuses to behave, he worries that her antics will keep him from making friends and fitting in in this new town and at his new school.
T. T. Sutherland, 2010
3
Louise the Big Cheese and the Back-to-School Smarty-Pants
Louise is determined to earn straight A's in second grade, but her teacher, Mrs. Pearl, is known for not giving out that special grade.
Elise Primavera, 2011
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Brown Paper School book: Math for Smarty Pants
Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.
Marilyn Burns, 1982
5
Little Miss Smarty-Pants
Little Miss Smarty-Pants is the true coming-of-age tale of a wallflower-turned-wiseass.
Suzanne Kopoulos, 2008
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Smarty Pants
I am smarty pants. See me fly and swim and swing and...
Joy Cowley, 2009
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Smarty Pants
Bold and bright Norah spends a week with her spirited great-aunt Norah in this tale of hilarity and heroism.
Colleen Sydor, 2003
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How to Be a Genius: A Handbook for the Aspiring Smarty-Pants
Offers advice on recognizing early signs and what field should be pursued for geniuses, and gives humorous one's way to find the way in the intellectual pantheon.
André De Guillaume, 2007
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Exemplars: Your Best Resource to Improve Student Writing
Smarty-Pants the monkey had been born and raised in the New York Zoo. This particular zoo had the most talented animals in the world! These animals could read, write, and paint and talk! This Zoo was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Upjohn.
Graham Foster, Toni L. Marasco, 2007
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Leveled Readers' Theater: Grade 2
The King of Everything's Cat This play is about a king who asks the wisest people in his kingdom to think of a name for his cat. Narrator 1 Narrator 2 King Smarty Pants 1 Smarty Pants 2 Smarty Pants 3 clouds kingdom The Smarty Pants throne  ...
De Gibbs, Camille Liscinsky, Lisa Vitarisi Matthews, 2008

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMARTY-PANTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smarty-pants is used in the context of the following news items.
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How to Say Goodbye to Mad Men? Why With a Smarty-Pants
Mad Men returns for its final episodes on Sunday, April 5, capping one of the most acclaimed series in television history. With Don, Peggy, Joan, and the rest of ... «CityLab, Apr 15»
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Smarty-pants storytime: Chelsea Clinton reads news to her baby
The Clintons leave Lenox Hill Hospital with newborn Charlotte. Photo: Startraxphoto.com and ACE/INFphoto.com. MORE ON: chelsea clinton · How Chelsea ... «Page Six, Jan 15»
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Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays
Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays. Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays 1. Matt Roth for The Chronicle. Melissa Boone, a doctoral student at ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec 12»
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The Smarty-Pants Problem
Over the weekend, Maureen Dowd penned the column that somebody—some liberal—was bound to pen eventually. Basically, it was about, uh, why ... «Tapped, Sep 11»
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